Disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been granted an attraction in his New York sexual assault case.

The New York Courtroom of Appeals, the state’s highest court docket, agreed Wednesday to listen to his attraction of his 2020 intercourse crimes conviction in Manhattan.

Weinstein, 70, was sentenced to 23 years following a landmark trial through the #MeToo motion that discovered him responsible of prison sexual assault and rape within the third diploma.

He has argued sure testimony allowed at trial was improper and a juror who wrote a novel about “predatory older males” ought to have been disqualified.

Weinstein’s attorneys have till Oct. 18 to file a short with the court docket to start the appellate course of, the docket reveals.

The Appellate Division’s First Division beforehand upheld Weinstein’s conviction, however outgoing Chief Choose Janet DiFiore granted Weinstein’s movement for depart to file an attraction.

In a press release offered to ABC Information, Harvey Weinstein stated, “I’m harmless of those costs, and I’m so grateful to my attorneys for working exhausting and sensible of this. Their exhausting work will assist me show my innocence in the long run. I look ahead to this chance to be heard by the New York Courtroom of Appeals.”

A spokesman for Weinstein stated in a press release to ABC Information that the court docket’s resolution “demonstrates that there’s, actually, benefit to the attraction. There was loads improper with the trial and conviction and Harvey’s attorneys will do what is required to show his innocence of the fees.”

The Manhattan District Lawyer’s workplace, which introduced the fees towards Weinstein, declined to remark Wednesday.

The sentence included 20 years for prison sexual assault within the first diploma, which stems from an accusation from former “Venture Runway” manufacturing assistant Mimi Haley. It additionally included three years for rape within the third diploma, stemming from an accusation from Jessica Mann.

Weinstein confronted a minimal of probation and a most of 4 years in jail on the rape conviction, and between 5 and 25 years on the prison sexual assault conviction.

He was discovered not responsible in that trial of the extra critical costs of predatory sexual assault and of rape within the first diploma.

Weinstein is presently jailed in Los Angeles awaiting trial there on intercourse crime costs. He faces 4 felony sexual assault costs for allegedly attacking two ladies in separate incidents in February 2013 inside a day of one another.